 Welcome to vlog. There's a 337 Merging all the things tech talk and live Q&A. I don't know that I'm gonna have this one too long But hey, I say that all the time kind of depends on how the questions go and how much water I have the drink and things like that, but Nonetheless, I said it late today late or today Because I knew more things would come up to do as they do The merger is upon us in terms of for those you know, I'm merging my company with CNWR And you know, this is where you get to discover all the little things that oh, yeah, that one more thing you had to do and So I've actually hasn't meant too bad the Little details have been moving forward. So I'm happy, but it does of course take a little bit of time to do But that's part of life and that's part of this whole process. I Mentioned before No one here but us and chickens. Yeah We are certainly running around with our heads cut off a little bit. There's there's always that oh, yeah, I forgot to put that on the list Oh, yeah, we got that project too. Oh, yeah, this is got to be over there But I think we're handling it pretty well. We'll we'll do some debriefs on the business technicalities channel So I think that's where the business debriefs are gonna be interesting the tech ones I'll cover here. I there really hasn't been any collisions of tech We we're both Using some similar tools few different tools, but we have some of the same things So I don't know there's much to talk about on a tech side there'll be some more to talk about technically because I Talk about the stack we use but there's a few extra things that are used at CNWR So there's certainly that as a topic to talk about so that's gonna be kind of fun, too One of the things I wanted to comment on and let's see my vlog Thursday email that someone sent This question has come up before and I'm just not worried about it I'm gonna pop it out So I can read it Read it very clearly here XCPNG is built on rel rel is gone now. Well, not really gone. They're just in they're in a state of chaos You've long been a proponent of XCPNG. Are you having second thoughts about that decision? Not at all Do you have any interpretation about the future of XCPNG going forward? Not at all What are your thoughts and feelings in general about XCPNG in a real apocalypse? It doesn't bother me This is something that is documented well Over by the team at XCPNG. They don't Real they use such a customized version as loosely based on CentOS They know they can move to Rocky. They can move to Alma. They can use move to another platform They could even spin their own they're doing such a customized version with XCPNG of an appliance that they Don't really worry it. It's like an annoyance not a critical feature. So I'm not Really worried in any way I can think of it all matter of fact Vates and the whole XCPNG they now are on the I figure what Gartner calls it They're on not the big Gartner quadrant list, but they're kind of on the radar where you get listed And the XCPNG and project is becoming that big They just announced their partner program yesterday. So they're Really like they're skyrocketing in terms of usage and things like that. I know I met directly with the whole team just yesterday Yeah, that was yesterday or Monday. I don't know one of the days this week. It's been a busy week Tuesday Tuesday, I met with the Vates team. I knew some of the stuff they were doing. I've actually Were I work with them as well? So I'm very They're very forthcoming about all this by the way, so I I sometimes know things only days before they release it But I also you can gain insights by hanging out with them in their forums So there's simply no worries I have about XCPNG and I mean, I don't I'm not worried about red hat Red hat should be maybe concerned that their behavior will Alienate people. So I think red hat should have some concerns. The market certainly has concerns Jay from LearnLinux TV a couple of the I think his article he wrote about Red hat and some other things and Jeff Gehrling, there are two people big in the Linux community who definitely have a lot to say about it and What they say is not just them being angry or trying to get views. They have a real concern and it's very valid. So Rel is still a mess and I can't really do much about that. But on the other side Let's see here Does PF Sense, NetGate have the ability to route different clients out different WANs? Yes, it does That's referred to as policy routing. I was just gonna bring that up. So is it on the NetGate blog? Let's check that real quick. They think they probably have it there There yep. Yep. Yep. So let's share the screen and Bring this up as a topic wasn't the topic today, but it was definitely a topic I wanted to talk about Chrome tab there we go Because PF Sense 2.7 is released So now I can go back and all the people that told me 2.6 was the last release and comment that It's not the last release 2.7 came out But then they'll tell me 2.7 is the last release, but they're probably the same people that told me 2.5 was the last release 2.4 was the last release Etc. Etc. So I get to I get to laugh about that None the less. Yeah PF Sense 2.7 CE and PF Sense plus 2305.1. So there's a point release as well I didn't load the point release yet. I'm gonna do that tonight because why not? So that's definitely on the list of things to do is get that done I want to get all the things updated as fast as possible on these. Let me throw this banner up there the feedback I Do is from People emailing vlog Thursday at LarnSystems.com by the way, none of that changes with the merger matter of fact me and Jason Planned to start doing more things in terms of feedback. We have me and Jason We're noodle around an idea called Tom and Jason do tech support So we're we do free consulting where people send us some things and we'll offer some insights or ideas and stuff And I don't know we're probably same thing post in the forums email it to vlog Thursday Well, we're gonna come up with a couple more things to be more interactive with the audience It's kind of the goals we have on there. So Chris's thing. Yeah, everybody knows two point ease the last release quit feeding the trolls that two point It'll be the last one. Got it What do you prefer to your naster on raid, you know, I don't have anything against on raid I just don't use it and They're just not something I I I look at it and it doesn't have the performance of true Nass It doesn't have all it doesn't have ZFS. I know ZFS is on its way But if it gets ZFS then that creates a problem for the reason people like on raid of the I can expand it as I see fit I didn't there's nothing wrong with on raid as a platform But for me more of my stuff and my commercial support goes towards true Nass and businesses Therefore, I'm partial to true Nass, but I don't know if you are a user who goes Hey, I like on raid and I want to use it in my lab. There's not a reason not to use it if it fits your needs For your YouTube leads, so they're more internal it Reaching out for MSPs the senior have the same presence They CNN CNWR gets my team with the merger So they have they have a CNWR has a strong presence. They are a Checking leader bigger than us. They're they're a have more staff than us But it's gonna be a mix of they bring more to the table because we would say no previously to certain things I just didn't have in-house skillset for so now that we have More team to be able to handle those leads at CNWR We can actually say yes to more things and even bigger projects now So that's actually a big exciting part where there was so sometimes like hey I'm in this has actually been a complaint. Hey, you guys are booked up for two weeks. Yeah, I Know when I am not joking when I say in the last 300 days, we did over 600 consulting bookings You're like, yeah, 300 days. That's to a day. No, you gotta remember We're working Monday through Friday. It can be more than to a day Sometimes that's three a day because you got it. We're not I mean we will work weekends But that's extra not everyone wants to pay that so the whole Merger definitely brings us more resources, which is part of the reason You know, I wanted to be able to do that was to be able to service you want to grow How do you grow faster if you merge companies? It's actually faster to grow than trying to hire more people Because hiring people with a lot of skills. That's a whole Big piece of it What CRM software to use right now it's HubSpot Invoicing well now, there's two answers because it's invoicing and just what we use for that. They use the connect-wise manage and sell platform We currently use fresh desk, but we'll be merging into what they use which is all the connect-wise ticketing My bad in the wording that does consulting calls for coming from other MSPs or IT both We we work with a lot of MSPs. We work with a lot of internal IT I would probably say it's a mix of A little bit heavier on internal IT, but there's a pretty good number of MSPs we work with Especially because the unify unifies popular in the MSP space But the MSP doesn't have the skill set and knowledge about it We have a handful of MSPs that just farm it out to us to do the unify thing and then we turn over the keys to them once it's done. So Yeah, we do have a whole video on CRMs I'm not the CRM expert, but if you check out our business technicalities, it's linked in the description That is a our channel where we talk about all things business Also ask questions put comments there You can reach out to Jason and Brett and I do some videos on there, too But Jason and Brett primarily do the videos for business technicalities They're taking requests if you have certain specific ass and by the way, they're reading the comments because there's not a lot of them So it's easy. We're still building that channel up So it we're we have the ability to be quite responsive on because there's not a ton of comments to respond to yet For a small business about four or five access points you recommend Cisco, Meraki, a big goodie for wireless How would you compare these? Well, Meraki's not a bad choice in terms of if you want something that is set it and forget it because Meraki does work Well, you're gonna get all the nice updates and you don't have to manage your controller But that has a cost the licensing cost So you have to decide are you fine with those licensing costs? Do they fit the budget they fit the client budget if you're doing this for a client Meraki makes a product that works It's just a matter of the licensing fees that sometimes bother people This is where unify very much as a popular product and stand somewhat alone for offering a Self-hosted controller system where you manage it yourself and it works. Well, we've we actually have great luck Installing ubiquity we we installed in it. I'm trying to even I'm a poke around with our invoicing system Trying to figure out just how many we installed but it's in the thousands last year alone that we installed with ubiquity We put a lot of these in the product works there's a reason and Riley Chase has posted this when people say well How big is ubiquity because ubiquity doesn't other than you know, they're publicly traded stock information You may not know how big ubiquity is But if you follow hostify and some of their posting you'll go. Oh wow, Riley is like You know quite open about just how many Devices are hosted. He's got this script. He wrote that kind of figures out how many Devices I mean he breaks them all down by device how many thousands of each model Wi-Fi access plan in there So I find it to be a really good solution. I like it But you don't get as much support when you have the unify So if it depends on your knowledge, but between me and many other youtubers putting out lots of videos about how to configure Unify I think you can figure it out Do you any of your employees have full-time? W. I don't know what WFH is We have lots of full-time employees, but I don't understand the question Unify release your cloud controller for $30 a month everybody Turned into everybody recommending hostify free marketing Yeah, I don't even know what they were doing ubiquity was offering it then they stopped offering it Then they are offering it again. I don't know the status on it. Oh work from home One of any projects infrastructure is code and our configuration managers like answaltere if any projects you use Me personally not a lot. That's not my field of expertise I have lots of friends that do it and I J. Oh matter of fact techno Tim techno Tim whose YouTube channel has quite a few subscribers also friend of mine He does that professionally and has lots of tutorials on that topic. So it's not what I do, but definitely he does Work from home work from home. Yes, some of the some of the employees are work from home They come into the office once in a while we have like different Kind of depending on the people some work from home all the time come in the office like once a month Some come in the office a couple days a week. So it varies There's not it kind of depends on the employee what they want to do and how they want to work it out It's not we don't have any strict you need to be at the office rules for either company by the way You know that I've said the same thing when I meet Especially because I don't watch a lot of YouTube videos, but I do definitely listen to a lot of podcasts And if you meet someone in person that you've listened to it to X you're like, oh man, do they have an aneurysm? They're talking really slow They're like, oh wait, I don't you're not sped up. That's why Yeah, when you start listening everybody sped up that's and then don't that's definitely strange I Work from home. I missed 10 minutes caught someone digging a hole in my backyard Are you work from home full of remote folks? It's both, you know technically I'm the remote person I mean I come by the office sometimes My I do lab stuff there because I don't I keep all the servers. I'm not putting them at my house So they stay at the office. So I'm mostly like I go there maybe for an hour or two and then I come back I grab lunch if I'm going out and grabbing something. I may bring it back to the office to eat. So yeah, that's It's kind of a mix Well, there's still gonna be lots of boxes. That's my son my son hasn't been to the office It's he just got back from a road trip up north. We actually clean the office marks it Marcus So it's a lot cleaner, you know, it's not clean and It's getting better, but it's the air quality here. It's just terrible. Yeah, this is The air quality here in Detroit, so I had a trade-off problem here Iran they see you know, this is a air gradient system and I turned on the AC and it did this but then my see wasn't running enough So I turned a fan on but then I opened the window a little bit because the co2 was getting high For me being in my office I usually crack the windows a little bit to get some air in here and so I started you can see I just did this And the co2 dropped sharply. So we hit This this is all the fun stuff. I've been tracking in my office to make sure I don't suffocate myself There's the here's the problem when you work in a smaller confined studio space, and there's not a lot of air circulation Such as life What else though, but yeah, we have the PF sense stuff. This is exciting Share this tab instead throw it back up there. I'll be doing a video on this I'll probably do the video tomorrow set this up tonight run through see what's here Changes to PF sense plus 2305 that one supporting the project Purchase tax for resources. Yeah, there's a lot of little stuff in here. I do recommend reading I'll throw this in the link. I tweeted it to Okay, so he wants to go through and read all the details Tom cracks window. I Just 24 seven with the fans. I would if it wasn't for what's going on Was it and air quality We are Having a problem today See if I can show this Where are they measuring it Alan Park 180 say I'll show this tab real quick Let's make sure it wasn't anything on here Share this tab instead, but yeah, we have our air quality index of 186 right now, but it was 200 something But yeah, we we're dealing with All the smoke and smog from it's this Picture of the Detroit Oh, I think I have a photo I took I took a photo because I was just kind of blown away This is me driving down the street It just it's so smoggy out that it's just it looks terrible. That's why we didn't want to crack the windows Inverse question how much of your workload customers is outside of Michigan. Do you only do consulting or full IT projects? It was where oh, yeah, huge number of our customers are outside of Michigan They're all around the US and around the world. So consulting will do globally MSP we do in the United States for legal reasons So we keep it within United States in Canada the United States in Canada is fine The the there can be different laws that I haven't want to cross that bridge We've got to have attorneys validate things if we were to take on an MSP client Managed contract client outside of the US, but we do consulting outside the US because that's easy But consulting is global It's all over the map like I should probably I used to do this thing Right, there's a tool called map a list and you can dump all the addresses I would just change the addresses to only the city. I just use a zip code. So there's no, you know detailed information I grab all the zip codes and plot them and it's kind of cool to see the density of where all the clients are They're all over the place and it's a I mean we have clients in Texas, California, Alabama South Carolina almost I don't know if we have one in every state That's it. That's another statistic. I'll look up is how many states do we have people in? I know at least we've done two Indian reservations. So even that was just kind of neat We we helped set up some site-to-state Wi-Fi on Indian reservations. So yes, our clients are all over the place CO2 and O2 et cetera rather didn't know yeah Yep, a couple weeks ago in New York. It was really bad to do too Just dropped below 200 p.m. 2.5 for the first time in three days. Yeah, it's just rough here as I sucks. I wanted to go outside because actually nice out. It's like 70 degrees and I want to go do outdoor things But I can't I see really see thousand horrible so like that for over a week. Yeah Plot zip code for center dollar for radius and see what the map looks like I've thought about that The dollar for the dollar for radius to be interesting But it's just some companies have projects that we're doing that are big in some places. I don't know I guess I there's a there's a couple factors. I have to think about for that But maybe that would possibly be interesting. I do want to Plie like playing with data when you when you start having a lot of data you go Hey, how can I look at this differently and think about it differently? and you know with YouTube being my inbound leads they come from all over matter of fact YouTube is only 50% of My viewers are in the United States 50% slow half That's why we get so many people that I interact with that are you know on the global scale we have we have a few regular companies we work with in France and the UK and one in Remember if it's Sweden We helped redo a big a pretty good-sized network there And it worked out really well because of the offset of hours They were working after hours. We were working during business hours. So Yeah Can't get my wire guard client to access IP sec VP and subnet both accessible pms forum question It's probably a PF sense forum question and there might be some challenges of That working I don't know if you can go from the wire guard over through the IP sec I just I don't I haven't done any mixed environments where I have to do that So I just don't know if that is possible. That's why you might want to post in the PF sense forums for that one If you're a little like daddy should play with influx DB your fauna and look at doing analysis Visualizations that time series data, even if you don't adopt a production. It could be fun. Yeah, it's kind of novel I It's a pop I know it's a popular service and hey, I might have more time to do these things That's that's another one of it too. That is the whole reason for the merger is Tom wants to do more videos and play with technology and not have to deal with some of the Day-to-day business operations. That's Jason sliggle. He's the president. He gets all that What was it gonna do here pull up Do I have this saved I want to talk about something I gotta figure out how to put this into some type of email or not email video content I said email Let me pull this up because somewhere I gotta look at the password to it. What do I have the password set to? Change me. All right So share this tab instead. I Wanted to I'm trying to figure out how to do this because this question comes up a lot I want to make sure this works today. It's updated it. I don't really use next cloud very often Which is why there's nothing in it. Yep. So nothing in it some documents. What is this? Me putting memes in there More memes There we go The challenge becomes and I was gonna title this, you know, what will help with and what will support because I get a lot of messages on this and One of the questions is very frequently is people going. Hey, help me set up next cloud. Okay But then they're like, well, I want to publicly expose it I'm like, well, if you don't know how to set it up. Do you know how to maintain it? And they're like, no. Well, you should probably buy a subscription plan and an update plan and support Oh, no, I don't want to pay any money. And I'm like, if you start publicly exposing these This is why we won't offer support plans for things like next cloud. It's also not really worth it the Challenges are and another person had reached out to me about setting up like a Samba domain controller and saying hey Well, you help me support this and I'm like, this is falling under the same thing What do you try to do? Oh, we're trying to avoid having windows licenses and simplify things I'm like, you're gonna take your windows clients set up Samba's a domain controller You want someone to hold your hand and offer support contracts that goes outside of what we want to support There's always this thing where we'll help people thought of projects But we always try to push and remind them how are you going to maintain this? What does the long-term look like on it and next cloud is definitely another one of those that is Like I get it. It's a cool service And I think it's awesome for your home lab and a great place to synchronize and have all your documents but if you want to use it for your business and specifically the Business that had asked me was in the medical field and I was like, yeah Yeah, you probably don't want to stick all your patient data in here and publicly expose this without a solid plan to keep it up to date In running So these are just some considerations where sometimes people see me talking about oh, tom you like this software or that software Yeah, but I'll talk about security union, which I've been wanting to do a video on for a while But that's not what we deploy to clients because it's not going to be scalable and manageable and things like that I'm sure I figure how to put the video together where maybe it's just a short one Or maybe I just make a list and put it because on our hires page We have an FAQ like hey, we'll help you set this up But no, we won't give you a managed contract on that setup because it's not an easy thing to support and Also, if your reason for doing it is you think the licenses are too expensive You know for office 365 or google g-suite Then you probably won't like my maintenance plan that I Cost that I would have to associate with something like that. So that's one of the reasons. We don't really look too much into it And by the way, net cloud does have their own Hosted option and that's usually I tell people is hey next cloud's got a very reasonably placed hosted option on there So that's something to consider As a business owner and someone who actually knows tech What on a resume really shows knowledge and experience just a million sort of versus just a million certification certifications are not bad They are definitely a step in the right direction. Um, I usually look for someone who's passionate about things I look for Especially for in the development world. Have you done some community contributions? Um You know your participation of Kennedy. Do you go to some of the hacking events? You know, so there's definitely, um some of those things get looked at as well like Kind of you're around the tech things that you're doing then there's going to be on the q&a If you get interviewed by me or Jason slaggle, you'll find that we are asking questions that are going to be You're not being interviewed just by hr. You're being asked technical questions to see if you actually are Comprehending these and what's the decision? Uh, you're gonna make but uh, I one of the reasons I heard one of the people was we got in a whole discussion about how they like hacking phones and Um, that was an interesting topic There's sometimes those little things that your personal lab stuff can stand out on a resume going Hey, I learned how to do this or i'm doing this project in even it's a personal But very technical project that can really stand out on a resume because it shows that not just you Got some search or work in the industry but also you have a Passion for it that you're like, hey, I built this project I set up home assistant with a whole automation system I built a kubernetes cluster and learned, you know several different things of how to deploy it and Self healing setups. I did it for my home lab. Those are things that stand out on resumes Uh, they stand out really well if you happen to work for a company where you did that too So if your experience is in that thing in the commercial space, well that also stands out Uh, 50 u.s. View shows why we need more maker tick router videos They are very popular outside the land of ol' glory. No, they're not popular at all You can look up the network berg. Um, I think that's his name, right? We'll pull it up real quick. He does them and people don't watch him He's got as many subscribers as me. So Let me find this video So if we share this tab throw it up here So I just recommend is I don't use maker tick. I don't plan to use maker tick And the maker tick videos Don't get a lot of views. That's He's got a few on here Uh, what else does he have? I notice a few. Is it a playlist if you search maker tick, you'll find them on here playlists Does he have one dedicated to maker tick? me critic videos 61 videos so we have a lot to come But if you go through these they don't have 4 000 views on this one 50 000 views so and I don't use it. So I'm not likely to make any videos on it. So There's not a reason for me to make videos. He has the videos. There's So they exist Uh, any advice for network monitoring tool? I keep hearing about zavix I need something that will also take regular config backup switches and routers um What is that? software called There is it's kind of weird name. So, you know, someone will probably say it I say some of the weird name it means like acid or something like that. It's got um in source config network config Know when I see it There's a few open source tools out there for it though Rancid that's the one So, uh, rancid is one that's popular for doing that Nope, we don't sell kubernetes support. The funny part is what people think kubernetes like It's funny. Um, they don't realize how much that costs To get kubernetes support that's that's another thing on there people want help with kubernetes And if you you know, if I I know people to do it, but they're gonna want like Three four hundred dollars an hour and people like, oh, that's crazy. I'm like, no, it's not. What do you think kubernetes support goes for? And if you're giving it away for less than that, hey, you know, um more power to you But if you look around a good kubernetes person does really really well Uh, I was not talking about the devices themselves He has to post a while because it's been running out of stuff to talk about mostly I'm waiting on v7 router to get more feature complete I can say for personal experience doing a homelab on youtube makes great conversation with recruiters So a lot of doing projects makes you stick out. Yes Your view on stuff is different angle and which I greatly value But my view is I don't like micro tech. I don't care for their bad interface. They're quirky software So, um, that's my angle on it. Like it doesn't solve a problem for me It it degrades more. It's like it's One of the problems that I've seen is people posted my forums and someone had a nice roll right up They did they listed all the challenges and they they worked Someone who works at an isp that posted my forums, but they posted all the quirky problems they run into with me critique and You just kind of have to learn them and I'm like, why would I want to learn a quirky problem? System like it doesn't make sense to me. I have to learn something like that unless it really solves some problem What problem is I'm do I need to solve and it's you know with anything I'll try another product It has to have like a killer feature and I'm like, oh cool This this this has enough features to make me want to try another product and meekertick doesn't scratch that itch for me Other than it's about 20 less than some of the other products out there So it's for pricing Yep, uh pf sense has been released And these here this is the um Alto Wi-Fi's I did a video on these. This is another one. Uh that I think is a pretty cool product. I did the video on it, but you know the um The uh problem of not having a locally hosted controller I was trying to figure what you said there meekertick solves one problem They're April fools. Why two videos are 10 for 10? Ah, I they have a funny way of doing videos So I will I will say that meekertick people are funny for that Their videos have fun presentation to them I Definitely can't complain about that As my co2 goes down my parts for million go up I'm watching I'm full of hot air. So Even with the window open. I'm still adding co2 to my studio. It's only open a little just a little bit Just a small amount But enough that this happened this is where time opened the window And just before the live stream and yep, here we are open window and it was doing so. This is window closed This is just how much of the particulate matter got in the house What a mess Uh Well, I don't know what more I have what did I have in my list here? So we didn't have in my list, but we covered the new pf sense software We complained about michigan air quality. We talked about meekertick because we can't have a vlog thursday without meekertick I kind of mentioned supporting this whole uh next cloud thing kind of goes back to supporting Um true nas itself Because someone did ask me And what they were trying to avoid and i'm like there's not really avoiding this they're like, well, do you support true nas? Yes, but someone wanted a full sla agreement on a hodgepodge of hardware they bought and i'm like, no If you buy an ix systems and you buy professional hardware Yes, if you slap something together and hope to get a full we'll offer consulting on it But we don't offer like full guaranteed response service level agreements And performance guarantees of hodgepodge of hardware kind of the same thing Uh, co2 is not going up because the window's open As a matter of fact, the co2 goes down When the window opens the co2 is up because tom's in here So you can see the co2 is actually Up a little but down from where it was because this is where I opened the window and So that's where it's at Slow climbs this is where I left my office for a little while So I was in my office Until here and I leave my office and it slowly wanders down as the air circulates I track this more than more than I should because I obsess over it because why not it's neat I like understanding all of the different things that control your health, you know It's we're just in the arm usually in the green if we go back can I go back a week I think I have a week's worth the data. I'm usually way down here in the green quite a bit It's usually not too bad in here Uh thoughts on using cloud cloudflare as dns for my domains in the process of moving off google domains Um cloudflare does a good job of dns. I don't think there's any challenges with using them Uh, don't think There's cloudflare cloudflare is uh Probably the I'm thinking the other one is in my head. Um, you can use like Who I don't remember who's free. Maybe we're out 53 is not free. That's the amazon one But the cloudflare stuff will be good So I don't see any problem with that. We um, I like hover for domain management though They actually have some dns But it depends on how advanced you want the dns hover covers the basics of dns Gets the job done Uh, following up on your recent ip camera roundup what systems would you say are the most vendor neutral having compatibility against a wide range of nbr's I don't I guess if you're buying The amcrest cameras and most so many cameras are just standard Omvif now so as long as your omvif compatible they work I use mostly what we sell the most of and we sell some some we sell some of the Unify ones too, but the majority of the camera sales that we do are going to be for the Synology surveillance stations. Those are just That those are really good sellers. The system works really really well They've just had another update that's rolling out. Um, that finally fixes the h265 problem where It's get goes chrome updated the way they handle h265 rendering So as provided your chrome version is supporting the h265 hardware rendering the Synology can now display h265 video. This is a limitation that chrome had and i'm glad they're they've they've figured it out Between chrome and synology. So that's rolling out in the new update out there But for the most part it's we do a lot of amcrest, but you could do more than just amcrest You can do a big variety of cameras with the Synology and VR's Other times when you don't want to encrypt zfs dataset where it creates headaches excessive snapshots performance issues I mean if you have low performance machines And I brought this up before because this is actually a problem I have Is my system If I encrypt my videos I get slow performance But this is kind of a me problem. So here's my LTS video make it bigger So you can see LTS video is unencrypted, but this system is an intel atom This does not score particularly fast this intel atom and because the decrypt is Limited to single core performance There's a benefit to not encrypting it because it makes my videos edit slower So yes, there are times when you may want to do it, but it's almost always a low performance system If you're looking at things in the enterprise environment Not really an issue because you usually don't have People who build enterprise systems that they want performance on using an atom processor Yeah, club fair tunnels are pretty neat. I I think it's a pretty cool thing I want to play around with tail scales version of it tail scales got the Tail I forget if they're calling it They're coming up with some of their own tunneling stuff on tail scale to be able to get services routed out from there So I think it's kind of neat Club fair is great Club fair is great and free is more enough for most people. The problem I have was your api last I checked You had to expose M and level key keys get left and grip working No real way to lock this down to specific name and specifics that are dns entries Do you work with any external security companies to solve configure cameras and other sensors? And have them provide monitoring experience as part of the whole site install No, we don't sell any actively monitored like alarm monitoring. We do not sell that not at this time Maybe in the future, but right now we do not sell alarm monitoring or Washing of the cameras like a security company does Sounds like he doesn't require a license for them cameras, but I'm sure the cameras I'm not sure how those cameras compare with the other vendors I like them Here I'm gonna file I gotta post my follow-up review I do have a puzzle sometimes in it. So let's pull it up real quick So the cameras work really well But sometimes Sometimes and I don't know why I need to see if I can find it Scroll down No, I probably got to go right to the camera to find it So if we go to the recordings and we filter for that camera As a matter of fact is tampering in here is the tampering that it has a problem with people vehicle tampering See it this this is a tampering detection. I don't know what causes it I haven't figured this out yet. Let's look because I gotta notice that someone tried to tamper with it Oh, okay It's a spider tampering with it. Never mind That's a challenge when there's spiders on the camera But I uh, this is the snell G bc 500. I really like the camera. It works well I have no complaints about I've been using it we used it for a while at my office and then it's The home now is my home. So the camera works really well. I'm very happy with the snell G camera I think they've done a good job with it The this is the picture quality during today So the picture quality is good the grass looks green and my truck is parked right there But yeah, no problems with it So watch it watches the squirrels for me Question on tunas Have you had to deploy upgrade clients zfs arrays with metadata vdevs to speed up the old spinning rest of planning on zs pool It's kind of a rare thing Um that we need to It's it depends on a use case. So yes, but But do they have a use case for it people seem to think they need it when they don't the First and foremost thing you should do with zfs at true nas is throw more memory at it before You get a special metadata vdev It really comes down to how many files do you have do you have enough files where that would make a difference? Wendell did a good video on this where he talked about You know having like a half a million files in the directory Well, that's a good reason to have one because if you're if you have all these tiny little files, you may want that But do you So It's one of those things that it depends on your use case people think they need a read cache I've got a whole video on that because you probably don't Uh pull the tampering detection up again because it looked like a bird. No, it's a spider We'll pull that up again That's a moth or something. I'm guessing Yeah, it's probably probably a moth We'll go with moth But yeah, you You can speed it up and it may not speed it up much Like someone wanted to put metadata ones on a virtual it was a virtual machine target for storage I'm like, well, that's not going to make any difference That's not to save the money and spend it on ram. So it really always comes down to What your use case is and your workload is With the rise of wire guard as a site to site vpn. Do you see ip sec going soon? No Um, are there times when you've actively replaced one for the other? No If if you have a working ip sec vpn, I don't go. Hey, I have an idea Let's bill you to replace it But if you said I have two pf sensors and I want to set up a new vpn, we might set wire guard up I don't really see It is a replacement Like it's going to replace it overnight ip sec isn't going anywhere ip sec is still like The most popular when it comes to site to site because you just don't see Cisco's not going to wire guard anytime soon and pf sensors interoperable with cisco and we have pf sensors talking to cisco equipment on lots of projects. So I don't really see it going anywhere. It's going to be just one of those things that just keeps on going So like I said less of a replacement more of a Offering but I'm not I'm like I said, I'm not going to actively go out and replace someone's vpn just because That's the a reason there's always have to be a reason people don't like surprise billable hours unless it has a real purpose I mean, there may be some client that just wants to switch things But I haven't really found those clients that go hold on. I just need to spend some money with you I mean, if you know a client like that, I'm I'm cool with them if they just want to do things But generally not how that works hmm Oh before I wind this down and get even further off topic Do I use any cool gadgets to clean cameras? Nope. Nothing cool. I mean just a standard Uh, I don't know Whatever these are the soft cloths The microfiber microfiber was the word tom was looking for So microfiber cloths But the other thing I'll mention Was this before I wind this down because I did do this the other day We uh, did the bike to the bay you can I still left the link down there. You can still donate to it But uh, some raise some money. There's me and my funny bike and uh, my friends that did it I did not do 100 miles. I did 52 Uh, Jay and several other people matley who you may have seen in the channel before and uh, his wife They did over a hundred miles with our other friend. So yes, we definitely, um Did some big miles They they come they crushed the 100 which was awesome. I'll do the 100 next year not doing the 100 this year Uh, but I'll probably do maybe I'll do 100 mile ride before that but definitely, um had a lot of fun doing that with my friends So that's the thing Then we were all Celebrating later Uh, we did rate, um, well, we're we're just raising money. We we certainly aren't the people knowledgeable about curing it Um, but we brought them $15,000 closer to a cure I don't know how to quantify that but I can quantify the dollars last I checked a little over $15,000 we raised Would you use renex on a camera? I don't know. That's a good question. It might help If it destroys your lens, don't blame me. I don't know if there's incompatibilities Dave Plummer has a cool gadget uses uh change light bulbs will probably work for cleaning cameras Uh with minor modifications Dave Plummer is just a fun person to watch If you don't know who Dave Plummer Dave's garage youtube channel, um, turns out, uh, me and him are messaging He likes my true nast videos So I was I I messaged him I was a fan of him and then it was even funnier when I learned that he was a fan of my He thought my true nast videos were very helpful. And so I was like, oh cool fanboy moment Just download pfc 2.7 loaded my previous backup from pns plus and had no problems. Awesome I love when people have no problems Off to go clean some condensation under a data center My bet was a june bug would have good one. All right Only had a buy a new free license see the upgrade pfs plus under system update Cool That's awesome. So I'm glad I went well But I think I'll wind this down here Or I'll just gonna wander around off topic and I have a few more things I want to get done Before the end of business today It's it's almost 7 p.m So technically it's kind of the end of business, but you know, I get I get more time that as long as I'm awake and Cognitive I usually keep doing something that's pushing forward either videos or projects or something like that But hey, as always love hearing from all of you email vlog. There's a lord systems.com So I love, uh, you know, the emails make it kind of fun post in the forums I'm very interactive in there. That's uh, by the way discourse said something nice about me They wrote a nice article about me using their forums I thought about doing a video of how I avoided the reddit drama How you build the community without the reddit drama and it's just like Yeah, there's a reason I wanted something self-hosted for my forums and not be part of some One else's idea of what a forum should be and that's the problem with reddit is reddit is ultimately Their idea of how a forum should be run You're just a guest and you may be an abused guest is what's happening now With them kicking the mods. Um, so I I've avoided, uh, that drama by hosting my own. So yes Um, oh motorbike question. Do you use a chain spray or oil a chain? I have there's it's like kind of a waxy type thing. Um It's there's a liquid and then I I usually use a cloth if you're talking about bicycles I usually use a cloth and work the chain and work it all in there Um, I have the chain cleaner and everything else the who makes that tool park tools Versa clean the chain with the park tool then I use the Pro link is the specific lubricant I use for that It works rather well If it's motorcycles, there's another brand I use for the motorcycle stuff, but pro link is what I use for the, um Bicycle chains there you you've learned tom's biking secrets How I maintain my bike that'll that's not this youtube channel though. Thank you very much everyone and uh, take care